I’ll like to add something I’ve been saying for a while, the blocking capacities of Lemmy seem to be designed to allow for these propaganda instances/comms/users to stay at least visible, block an instace at user level? no biggie, you still have to deal with their users, defederated? no problem, someone from an instance that links both can just crosspost and it will appear on the feed.
This gets worse when we take into consideration who the devs are and the instances they own and their usage.

The problem is those propaganda users, aren’t just contained into those instances, as an example, I moved to an instance that blocks the 3 main propaganda instances but still the only news I keep seeing about my country (🇲🇽) are only those approved by the government… guess what is that called? If I try to call it out I get downvoted (yes, even with those 3 instances defederated), it’s hard to add proof because most critics were kicked out of every media company so they were left with their own blogs or youtube channels (in spanish, obviously) and bots quickly disregard those and there’s just so many that it’s impossible as what it feels like if I was the only mexican on Lemmy (I know I’m not, but feels like it).

I think YPTB only works if other instance owners and admins actually care about keeping order on their instance, but they are still humans, they can (and will) make mistakes or plain allow some mod to do their shit… because who the fuck knows, until it’s too much/late and they actually have to step in.

I honestly think the fediverse can work, but Lemmy isn’t it, it’s too lax and too easy to drown in propaganda… hard for anyone that doesn’t speak english and extremely easy to get brigaded if someone doesn’t agree with your instance/nationality (like what happened to mujico and more recently lemmynsfw).